...precise community health picture invariably aids residents, professional entities, and community groups prioritize illness prevention, and develop coalitions for improving and tackle current issues. A collection of individuals' health status measures may aid comparisons between different populations, foster cooperation between entities performing evaluations, help stimulate residents to collaborate and work towards improving community health, and help establish mutual understanding of contributing factors to health (Boothe, Sinha, Bohm, & Yoon, 2013).Assessment of Community Health normally utilizes information from secondary and primary sources for characterizing health factors and results, determining community assets, and reflecting community views (Myers & Stoto, 2006). Qualitative as well as quantitative primary information is gathered first-hand via listening sessions, surveys, observation, and interviews (North Carolina Division of Public Health, 2010; U.S. DHHS, 1992; North Carolina Division of Public Health, 2010). Meanwhile, secondary information is gathered for some different purpose, or by some other individual, group or organization (Institute of Medicine, 2011).
2. Policy Development
One main health promotion activity is a policy for public health, whose advancement necessitates accurate anticipation of the policy's health outcomes and influencing of policy process for ensuring the health outcomes...
Health impact evaluation represents an approach capable of helping meet both the aforementioned requirements. Policies usually create health impacts through a number of indirect ways, rendering prediction complicated (Kemm, 2001).
A policy aiming for a healthy nation is evidently desirable; however, to achieve this, the following two conditions need to be met:
• Multiple policy options' health consequences must be predicted accurately; and • There is a need to influence policy process, to ensure health outcomes are taken into account (Kemm, 2001).
Assessing health impact can aid in fulfilling both the above conditions. Health-related lawmaking is complex as the benefits and harmful effects normally fall on separate groups. For instance, adding a railway line might be regarded as useful (from a health/wellbeing perspective) to individuals travel or transporting goods on it; however, for individuals living nearby, noise pollution poses an ill-effect to health. Resource utilization for a purpose, at least, means that they may not be utilized elsewhere, where another societal segment may have benefited (Kemm, 2001).
3. Assurance
Population health protection and promotion necessitates interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral health promotion approaches, including main specific Health Promotion worker roles, as well as roles for the wider social and health care workforce,…
